CHE 130: CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES

This course covers the fundamental concepts of general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biological chemistry primarily focused for application to nursing. Major topics include: molecular structure and bonding, chemical equations and associated calculations, solution calculations, states of matter, nuclear chemistry, the identification of primary organic functional groups and their reactions, and the basic chemistry of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, amino acids, and DNA. Critical thinking skills in science along with problem solving procedure development are included. This course requires both lecture and laboratory instruction. Prerequisite: MAT 102 or higher and high school chemistry, or professor approval. Corequisite: CHE 131